As Twitchy reported, House Speaker John Boehner attempted to sign up for Obamacare today, a process he called a train wreck. Boehner encountered at least two error messages online before putting a call in to the help desk.
Scott MacFarlane of NBC Washington reports, though, that the DC Health Exchange had its own complaints, saying that Speaker Boehner’s office put a spokesman for the exchange on hold when he called back to attempt to complete Boehner’s application.
DC Health exchange spokesman tells @NBC4ITeam he tried to call Speaker John Boehner to complete Boehner's insurance enrollment, but….(1)
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) November 21, 2013
was put on hold 35 minutes, hung up (2)
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) November 21, 2013
DC Health Exchange rep. says problem w/ John Boehner enrollment exacerbated by 35-minute wait on hold, when DC called Boehner office
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) November 21, 2013
Being put on hold would be frustrating —almost as frustrating as having to call the help line after encountering multiple errors on a website which should work.
The problem now: will Boehner even know when he actually is enrolled?
DC Health Exchange spokesman: “We recently discovered the fact that after enrollment, some users have been receiving a random error message"
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) November 21, 2013
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